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HBO has greenlit Game of Thrones!!!
- Yes, people use the "fantasy" label to describe "Game of Thrones." That's like describing "The Wire" as a cop drama and "Deadwood" as just another Western. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" novel series transcends labels by telling compelling stories about complicated people and the extremely difficult moral and personal choices they have to make. That's all I ask of any drama.
- Having said that, I do hope that "Game of Thrones" does for fantasy what "Battlestar Galactica" did for sci-fi on TV: Make people sit up and take notice of a good yarn, well told -- a yarn that does not deserve to be dismissed as genre fare. Let's hope "GoT" will be worth the wait.
